October 20, 2017

Jamaat-ul-Ahrar (JuA), a faction of the Pakistani Taliban, had claimed responsibility for many deadly attacks in the country, including a suicide bombing in a park in Lahore on Easter Sunday last year that killed 75 people including many children.

Soliciting or Providing Support for an Act of Terrorism in the First Degree as a Crime of Terrorism, a class B violent felony, 1 count
Soliciting or Providing Support for an Act of Terrorism in the First Degree, a class C violent felony, 1 count
Attempted Soliciting or Providing Support for an Act of Terrorism in the First Degree as a Crime of Terrorism, a class C violent felony, 1 count
Conspiracy in the Fourth Degree as a Crime of Terrorism, a class D violent felony, 1 count
Attempted Soliciting or Providing Support for an Act of Terrorism in the Frist Degree, a class D violent felony, 1 count

Rest of Presser below the fold.

Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus R. Vance, Jr., and New York City Police Commissioner James O’Neill today announced the indictment of TREVOR WILLIAM FORREST, a/k/a “SHAIKH ABDULLAH FAISAL,” a/k/a “SHAIKH FAISAL,” 53, for using his public profile and personal network to recruit and provide support to those seeking to commit acts of violence and terrorism against others. The defendant is charged in a New York State Supreme Court indictment with Soliciting or Providing Support for an Act of Terrorism in the First Degree as a Crime of Terrorism and other charges.[1]

The indictment follows a yearlong investigation by the NYPD Intelligence Bureau and the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office’s Counter Terrorism Program, which was created in June 2015 to identify and pursue investigative leads related to homegrown terror plots, extremist activities, and terror-financing.

“Shaikh Faisal has dedicated his life to terror recruitment,” said District Attorney Vance. “Through his lectures, website, and videos, he incites untold numbers of people around the world to take up the cause of jihad. As is alleged in this case, he provided material support to the Islamic State by facilitating the passage of a self-described ISIS sympathizer from New York to Syria. A charismatic leader, the defendant’s rhetoric has been cited by several convicted or suspected terrorists in New York, London, and beyond. As charged in today’s indictment, the defendant also served as the fulcrum of a recruitment effort that encouraged individuals to carry out acts of terrorism in the name of the Islamic State and connected them with other radical supporters who were willing—or already in the process—of doing the same in countries around the world.”

Police Commissioner James P. O’Neill said: “Shaikh Faisal has used his influence and direction to groom and inspire terrorists who have bombed trains, attempted to blow up airliners, and attack Americans here and abroad. His arrest for his efforts to recruit people for ISIS, a terrorist group that has plotted attacks against New York City, should bring an abrupt end to his global outreach in support of terror groups such as al-Qaida and ISIS.”

According to the indictment and documents filed in court, beginning in December 2016, FAISAL and an undercover NYPD officer based in New York began communicating remotely while the defendant was living in St. James, Jamaica.

Since 2014, FAISAL, who was previously convicted in the U.K. of crimes related to inciting murder and using racially charged, hateful rhetoric in furtherance of terrorist ideologies, has publicly supported a terrorist organization known as the Islamic State, a/k/a “ISIS” or “ISIL”, and called for the establishment of an Islamic caliphate through violent acts encouraged by the defendant’s online lectures and militant propaganda.

During their conversations, which occurred over email, text messages, and video chats, FAISAL encouraged the undercover officer to view his lectures online and began sending this person propagandist reports from an official Islamic State news outlet. After their initial exchanges, the defendant offered to help the undercover officer leave the U.S. and travel to the Middle East to support foreign fighters abroad. FAISAL also offered to connect this individual with contacts, cautioning the undercover officer to be circumspect about explicit references to the plan, employ coded language, and use an encrypted chat tool while communicating with FAISAL and his associates.

In a subsequent conversation, the undercover officer informed the defendant that they were certified to perform first aid and CPR, and reiterated the undercover officer’s desire to go overseas to provide aid to foreign fighters in the Middle East. FAISAL then suggested that the undercover officer enter into a marriage with someone in the Islamic State to enable travel abroad, and offered to broker the arrangement. Members of the NYPD Intelligence Bureau, along with the undercover officer, then traveled to the Middle East and, upon their arrival, the defendant provided the undercover officer with contact information for an individual based in Raqqa, Syria. In early 2017, that individual contacted the undercover officer and began collecting information about this person’s location and whereabouts in order to facilitate entry into the Islamic State.

Prior Anti-Terror Prosecutions

The Manhattan District Attorney’s Office has successfully prosecuted terrorists under New York State’s anti-terror laws, which were enacted following the attacks on September 11, 2001.

In March 2014, Jose Pimentel was sentenced to 16 years in state prison for constructing improvised explosive devices to detonate in Manhattan. Pimentel, who viewed FAISAL’s videos, participated in the defendant’s online chat forum, and cited the defendant as one of his primary inspirations, was convicted of Criminal Possession of a Weapon in the First Degree as a Crime of Terrorism.

In another case, in March 2013, Ahmed Ferhani was sentenced to 10 years in state prison after the defendant pleaded guilty to terror-related charges, including Attempted Criminal Possession of a Weapon in the First Degree as a Crime of Terrorism, Criminal Possession of a Weapon in the Second Degree as a Crime of Terrorism, and Criminal Sale of a Firearm in the Third Degree as a Crime of Terrorism, among other charges, for plotting to bomb synagogues in Manhattan.

Assistant District Attorneys Deborah Hickey and David Stuart, both of the Counter Terrorism Program, are handling the prosecution of the case, under the supervision of Assistant District Attorney Judy Salwen, Principal Deputy Chief of the Rackets Bureau, Assistant District Attorney Jodie Kane, Chief of the Rackets Bureau; and Executive Assistant District Attorney Michael Sachs, Chief of the Investigation Division. Senior Investigator Michael O’Brien, Deputy Chief Investigator Michael Wigdor, Chief Investigator Walter Alexander, Consultant Michael Tiffany, Deputy Chief of Intelligence Kevin Branzetti, Supervising Counterterrorism Analyst Andrea Mufarreh, Senior Counterterrorism Analyst Ryan Rittenberg, and Investigative Analyst Miye D’Oench also assisted with the investigation. Senior Computer Forensic Analyst Douglas Daus and Coordinator for Cyber Operations Nathan Weber assisted with the case, under the supervision of David Chan, Deputy Director of the High Tech Analysis Unit, and Steven Moran, Director of the High Tech Analysis Unit.

District Attorney Vance thanked the following individuals and agencies for their assistance with the investigation: the NYPD, and in particular, Deputy Commissioner of Intelligence and Counterterrorism John Miller, Chief of Intelligence Thomas Galati, Assistant Commissioner of Intelligence Analysis Rebecca Weiner, Deputy Chief Paul Ciorra, Deputy Inspector Paul Mauro, Captain Joseph Seminara, Sergeant Kevin Thacke, Detective Sherif Moussa, Detective Mohammad, and Investigative Analyst Jacque Singer-Emery; the U.S. Department of Justice Office of International Affairs, Criminal Division, and in particular, Trial Attorney Brian Nicholson; the United States Marshall Service in particular, Henry Gerbeth; and the Jamaica Constabulatory Force.

August 08, 2017

BERLIN – Al Qaeda's leader has claimed in an online message that a German man believed to have provided logistical support to the Hamburg-based Sept. 11 hijackers has died. The announcement by Ayman al-Zawahri came in an Aug. 2 audio message in which he says a man he identifies as Zuhair al-Maghribi who worked for As-Sahab, the terror network's media arm, is a "martyr."

He didn't provide details or say when and how al-Maghribi died.

Al-Maghribi is a known alias of Said Bahaji who is believed to have helped suicide hijackers Mohamad Atta, Marwan al-Shehhi and Ziad Jarrah when they were in Hamburg, and to have fled shortly before the 2001 attacks.

June 29, 2017

A radical cleric living in Birmingham has been accused of using YouTube videos to recruit and lead an Islamic State group terrorist cell based in Spain.

Click image to see how this relates to my post here.
readers have called it confusing. Well be unconfused

Tarik Chadlioui, 43, was arrested in the early hours of Wednesday as police in Spain said they had seized four of his alleged acolytes in Majorca.

Spanish authorities alleged Chadlioui was a “well-known” radical cleric who recruited fighters for Islamic State in Iraq and Levant (Isil) and allegedly acted as the “spiritual leader” of the group.

Benjamin Joyes, representing the Spanish authorities, told Westminster Magistrates: "It is alleged that the requested person with several others as a member of an organisation gave support to the terrorist organisation Islamic State by means of propaganda and incitement of new members to join the organisation.

Dressed in a traditional Arab robe and speaking through an Arabic interpreter, Chadlioui spoke only to confirm his name and address.

Anti-terror police used a European arrest warrant to detain Chadlioui in the Sparkhill area of Birmingham as part of a wider investigation into support Isil, also known as Daesh.

A 28-year-old Spanish man was also arrested in the German city of Dortmund.

Spain’s national police said their investigation had been running for two years and began “when a series of videos were discovered on a website which showed the process of indoctrination, recruitment and subsequent journey to Syria of a young Muslim living in Spain. The film promoter was identified as a Salafist imam."

Online he is known as Hārūn ArRašīd or always some variation of Harun.

March 17, 2017

At least three Pakistani soldiers and eight Taliban militants were killed Friday when terrorists launched cross-border attacks from Afghanistan on training facilities of the frontier troops in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province, the military said. “Terrorists from across the Pak-Border attempted physical attack on Pak FC (Frontier Constabulary) Post in Khyber Agency,” said a military statement, adding that six militants and two soldiers were also killed in the exchange of fire.

Its unclear if the first three Pakistani soldiers were killed fighting with or against the Taliban.

A common area of confusion in Pakistan. Who on the one hand feeds the Taliban and uses them, and on the other hand doesn't want their favorite pets to get too uppity and take over.

February 20, 2017

Omar Abdel Rahman was a member of Egyptian Islamic Jihad when Ayman al-Zawahiri ran that organization. He later emigrated to the United States where he engaged in Jihadi against America from the inside.

Omar Abdel Rahman, the Egyptian-born “blind sheikh” and spiritual leader who was convicted in 1995 of being a mastermind of terrorist plots against the United States, and who was called the “godfather” of radical Islamist movements, died Feb. 18 at a federal prison in Butner, N.C., where he was serving a life sentence. He was 78.

Kenneth McKoy, a Bureau of Prisons official, confirmed the death to the Associated Press. The cause was diabetes and heart disease.

Abdel Rahman, who was blind from an early age, had denounced secular tendencies in other Muslims since the 1960s and was linked for decades with extremist Islamist circles in Egypt and abroad. He was twice acquitted of helping plot the 1981 assassination of Egyptian President Anwar Sadat — whom he denounced as “not a Muslim” — and built an alliance with al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden while living in Afghanistan in the 1980s.

After moving to the United States in 1990, Abdel Rahman preached at storefront mosques in Brooklyn and New Jersey, and came under federal scrutiny after a 1993 bombing at the World Trade Center left six people dead and more than 1,000 injured.

August 03, 2016

And old friend of Zack Chesser has been arrested, one would think that he was also friends with some other members of Revolution Muslim, the gift that just keeps on giving.
Dept of Justice Press Release.

Nicholas Young, 36, of Fairfax, Virginia, was arrested today on charges of attempting to provide material support to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), a designated foreign terrorist organization. Young is employed by the Metro Transit Police Department (MTPD) as a law enforcement officer.

Assistant Attorney General for National Security John P. Carlin, U.S. Attorney Dana J. Boente of the Eastern District of Virginia and Assistant Director in Charge Paul M. Abbate of the FBI’s Washington Field Office made the announcement. Young’s initial appearance is scheduled for 2:00 p.m. before U.S. Magistrate Judge Theresa C. Buchanan of the Eastern District of Virginia.

According to the affidavit filed in support of the criminal complaint, Young has been employed as an MTPD officer since 2003. Law enforcement first interviewed Young in September 2010 in connection with his acquaintance, Zachary Chesser, who had been arrested and subsequently pleaded guilty to attempting to provide material support to a designated foreign terrorist organization. Over the next several years, Young allegedly had numerous interactions with undercover law enforcement personnel and an FBI confidential human source (CHS) regarding his knowledge of and interest in terrorism-related activity. Many of these interactions were recorded. Law enforcement also interviewed Young’s family and co-workers. In 2011, Young met with an undercover law enforcement officer, and several of these meetings included another of Young’s acquaintances, Amine El Khalifi, who later pleaded guilty to charges relating to his plan to conduct a suicide bombing at the U.S. Capitol Building in 2012.

According to the affidavit filed in support of the criminal complaint, in 2011, Young traveled to Libya once and attempted to travel there a second time. Young told FBI agents that he had been with rebels attempting to overthrow the Muammar Qaddafi regime. Baggage searches revealed that Young traveled with body armor, a kevlar helmet and several other military-style items, according to the allegations.

According to the affidavit filed in support of the criminal complaint, on about 20 separate occasions in 2014, Young met with the CHS, who posed as a U.S. military reservist of Middle Eastern descent who wanted to travel overseas to join ISIL. During these conversations, Young allegedly advised the CHS on how to evade law enforcement detection by utilizing specific travel methods and advised the CHS to watch out for informants and not discuss his plans with others.

According to the affidavit filed in support of the criminal complaint, also in 2014, the CHS led Young to believe that he had successfully left the United States and joined ISIL. In reality, the CHS had no further contact with Young. All further communications between Young and the CHS’s email account were actually communications between Young and FBI undercover personnel posing as the CHS. In June 2015, Young emailed the CHS asking for advice from the CHS’s commanders on how to send money to ISIL. Young said, “[u]nfortunately I have enough flags on my name that I can’t even buy a plane ticket without little alerts ending up in someone’s hands, so I imagine banking transactions are automatically monitored and will flag depending on what is going on.”

In December 2015, the FBI interviewed Young, ostensibly in connection with an investigation into the whereabouts of the CHS, according to the affidavit filed in support of the criminal complaint. Young allegedly said that the CHS had left the United States to go on a vacation tour in Turkey approximately one year ago. In addition, according to the allegations in the complaint, Young said that he knew of no one in the United States or overseas who helped the CHS cross the Turkish border into Syria.

On July 18, 2016, Young allegedly communicated with a person who he believed to be the CHS regarding purchasing gift cards for mobile-messaging accounts that ISIL purportedly uses in recruiting others to join the terrorist organization. According to the affidavit filed in support of the criminal complaint, on July 28, 2016, Young sent 22 gift card codes to the FBI undercover officer posing as the CHS with a message that stated: “Respond to verify receipt . . . may not answer depending on when as this device will be destroyed after all are sent to prevent the data being possibly seen on this end in the case of something unfortunate.” The codes were ultimately redeemed by the FBI for $245, according to court documents.

A criminal complaint is merely an allegation, and the defendant is presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt in a court of law.

If convicted, Young faces a statutory maximum sentence of 20 years in prison. The maximum statutory sentence is prescribed by Congress and is provided here for informational purposes. If convicted of any offense, the sentencing of the defendant will be determined by the court based on the advisory Sentencing Guidelines and other statutory factors.

The MTPD initiated this investigation and continues to work collaboratively with the FBI Washington Field Office’s Joint Terrorism Task Force on the case. The case is being prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorneys Gordon D. Kromberg and John T. Gibbs of the Eastern District of Virginia and Trial Attorney David P. Cora of the National Security Division.

May 16, 2016

Omar Kattan, a former biology student at the University of North Texas in Denton, entered Syria in September 2013 when he was 23 and described himself as a “suicide fighter,” according to the records. He is believed to have been killed.

May 04, 2016

ustralia's most wanted terrorist Neil Prakash has been killed in a US air strike on the Islamic State (IS) stronghold of Mosul in northern Iraq.

US says Prakash among group of IS operatives killed during air strike in Mosul on Friday Death "significant" because of his highly prominent, influential role as senior IS recruiter Sister of teenager who shot dead police officer Curtis Cheng killed in separate strike in SyriaThe ABC understands Prakash was among a gathering of IS operatives targeted on April 29, with the United States recently confirming his death and advising Australia.

American authorities have also advised the Federal Government that Australian woman Shadi Jabar Khalil Mohammad was killed in a similar air strike near the Syrian city of Al Bab a fortnight ago.

March 18, 2016

The last known surviving suspect in the deadly November Paris terror attacks that killed 130 people has been captured alive, Belgian police confirmed Friday. Salah Abdeslam was taken into custody wounded, but alive, after a raid in the Molenbeek neighborhood in Brussels. Yahoo News is following the latest developments in the live blog below.

March 14, 2016

A top ISIS commander known by his nickname Omar the Chechen — and recognized by his distinguishable red beard — is believed dead from a U.S. airstrike in Syria, a senior defense official told NBC News Tuesday.

The likely death of Omar al-Shishani near the town of Shaddadi — seized by Syrian rebels from ISIS last month — would be a key gain for coalition forces in taking out one of the biggest names on the U.S.'s terror hit list.

Update: 03/10 reports are emerging from inside Syria that al-Shishani was only severely wounded in the attack and he's being treated at the hospital in Raqqa.

Well that should do him in, as Raqqa is suffering shortages of medical supplies and personnel.

December 01, 2015

An Austrian jihadist who served time in prison in Vienna on terrorism charges and later joined Isis (the extremist Islamic State group) is believed to have died from injuries sustained during fighting in Syria, according to a report in the Österreich newspaper.

An Austrian jihadist who served time in prison in Vienna on terrorism charges and later joined Isis (the extremist Islamic State group) is believed to have died from injuries sustained during fighting in Syria, according to a report in the Österreich newspaper.

October 29, 2015

Several days ago Raqqa SL reported German Rapper Jihadist Deso Dogg was dead, I took this with a grain of salt because he's been killed so many times before, only top pop back up.

The only thing that will be popping up now are the daisies!

Spiegel Googlish: The expressway, on which ended the jihadists career of Denis Cuspert probably winds in northern Syria on the banks of the Euphrates along. It combines Rakka, the informal capital of the "Islamic State", with the 40 km west situated dam Sadd al Furat. About halfway up is a gas station. There, the rocket should have taken the pick-up, in which sat the Berlin Cuspert.

Germany's most notorious IS-Terrorist has been explained several times already dead. There are many indications that it is time not a hoax. For the first time Cusperts death is confirmed both by sympathizers as well as local opposition. German security authorities do not comment yet. The US Defense Department says only, on October 16, there had indeed been near Rakka an attack in which a vehicle was destroyed. That was two days before the 40th birthday Cusperts.

Taliban spokesman Qari Yousef Ahmadi, quoted by Sky News, said that Mullah Omar was "still alive and leading the movement".
But a second spokesman, Zabiullah Mujahid, told the BBC a statement would be made in the coming hours.

Some reports that he was droned or died of TB two years ago. Or was hit by a TB drone. I dunno, I just really want to start a rumor about TB drones.

We'll even give it 72 hours. After that Mullah Omar is dead. But the only reason that would matter would be to show what the Taliban Spokesmen an media wing are liars. The Taliban will still be there doing what Talibans do.

July 15, 2015

A US drone strike has killed at least 28 suspected Taliban militants in Afghanistan's eastern Nangarhar province, officials said Wednesday.

Provincial police spokesman Colonel Hazrat Hussein Mashriqiwal told Anadolu Agency the overnight strikes targeted Taliban fighters in the province's Haska Mina district and “hopefully a Taliban commander is also among those killed in Tuesday's attack."

The strike followed a series of other operations by the US in the province over the past week that have killed more than 100 fighters claiming loyalty to the Syria-based Daesh militant group, including their top two commanders and a former leader of the Pakistani Taliban.

July 06, 2015

Today other Twitter accounts associated with suspected ISIS members mourned the death of Abu Rahin Aziz, also known as Abu Abduallah Britani, who the other accounts said was killed in an American drone strike on the fourth – the same day the U.S. ..

June 23, 2015

wo terrorists who left Australia to fight for ISIS have been killed, a close relative said.

Khaled Sharrouf and Mohamed Elomar died in a drone strike in ISIS-controlled territory, said Zaynab Sharrouf, 14, who is Khaled Sharrouf's daughter and Elomar's wife. The men were getting into a car when they were struck, she said.

The two were prolific tweeting asshole braggarts. Posting the most graphic murderous images.

June 01, 2015

The Interior Ministry announced the killing of the ISIS film-making expert, known as Abu Samra, during an air strike on ISIS targets in western Anbar.

The ministry said in a press statement followed by IraqiNews.com, “The Falcon Intelligence Cell of the Interior Ministry’s Intelligence Service has confirmed the killing of the ISIS film-making expert, known as Abu Samra,” noting that, “Abu Mohammed al-Souri, known as Abu Samra and who is an American national, was killed during an air raid against ISIS in western Anbar,”

I wondered if it might be Ahmad Abousamra, who was indicted in federal court but who was thought to be in Syria with ISIS's propaganda wing. According to the Daily Mail, it's him.

----UPDATE: When I first posted, the Daily Mail had a blank placeholder post announcing Abousamra's death which told me that they knew his identity but had not yet finished writing the story. But now the story is written, and I thought I'd post just a bit linking Abousamra not only to Tarek Mehanna, but also to the two Boston bombers:

Abousamra had attended the same notorious mosque as the Boston bombers Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev, as well as other convicted terrorists.

'Abousamra's father, a prominent doctor, even sat on the board of directors of the Muslim organization that runs the [Islamic Society of Boston] mosque. He stepped down after the FBI began questioning his son,' Sperry said.

'As mosque president, internal documents show, Dr. Abousamra hired Hafiz Masood, brother of a known Pakistani terrorist, to be the imam of a mosque in Sharon, Mass., which his son also attended,' the article added.

Back to the original post ----

Just a reminder that his buddy Tarek Mehanna, now in federal prison, claims he was just exercising his First Amendment rights when he translated materials on behalf of al Qaeda in Iraq -- the group that would later transform itself into ISIS.

May 18, 2015

SIS threatened to behead President Obama inside the White House before spreading Shariah law across the U.S. Monday in a new propaganda video, according to reports. The Islamic terrorist organization also threatened other world leaders in a move that some suggest is retaliation for Kurdish forces seizing the Syrian border town of Kobane earlier that day.

The video, which is titled "Bombardment of Peaceful Muslim in the City of Mosul," shows the destruction of the Iraqi city from mortar shells. Later on is a graphic decapitation of an enemy soldier by an ISIS terrorist.

One of the insurgents said during the video that Islamic state forces will eventually reach the U.S. and kill President Barack Obama. He also threatened President Masoud Barzani of the Kurdistan Regional Government as well as the people of France and Belgium.

"This is the fate of anyone who opposes Islam," the man said. "Know, oh Obama, that we will reach America. Know also that we will cut off your head in the White House and transform America into a Muslim province."

USA Today reported further on the operation, which will be hurting the terrorists’ bankroll and morale:

U.S. Special Operations forces carried out a major raid deep inside eastern Syria, killing a senior Islamic State leader who oversees illicit oil production and capturing his wife, Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter said Saturday.

Carter said Abu Sayyaf, also known as Mohammed Shalabi, “was killed during the course of the operation when he engaged U.S. forces.

So what has ISIS learned from this?

ISIS militants issued a harrowing threat against President Barack Obama and the U.S., following a raid on an ISIS compound over the weekend that took out the organization’s chief financial operative Abu Sayyaf.

“If your goal is killing Abu Sayyaf then our goal is killing Obama and the worshipers of the cross. We have attacks coming against you.”

Abu Sayyaf, who was killed by U.S. Special Operations Forces, helped direct ISIS's illicit oil, gas and financial operations, which are "a key source of revenue that enables the terrorist organization to carry out their brutal tactics and oppress thousands of innocent civilians," the White House National Security Council spokeswoman Bernadette Meehan said in a statement.

He was a Tunisian citizen whose wife, Umm Sayyaf, is also considered to be an ISIS operative. Special Operations Forces took Umm into custody after killing Abu Sayyaf and 12 enemy fighters at his compound.

April 23, 2015

Al-Qaeda leader Ahmed Farouq, who was an American citizen, was also killed in the operation that killed the two innocent hostages.

Adam Gadahn, another American who joined al-Qaeda, was also killed by U.S. forces in the region, "likely in a separate" counterterrorism operation, Earnest said in the statement.

American officials at the time had "no reason to believe either hostage was present" when the raid was launched on a compound in the Afghanistan-Pakistan border region.

One of the hostages killed in the operation was Warren Weinstein, an American held hostage by al Qaeda since 2011. The other hostage, Giovanni Lo Porto, was Italian and had been held by al-Qaeda since 2012.

But if Adam Gadhan is dead, this is the time at Jawa Report when we dance.

He's dead Jim!

More background on America's only indicted but not dead traitor here and here.

When it comes to the Cyber Jihad the damage Adam did was immeasurable, you might consider him the founder of the Online Jihad in English. He basically was as-Sahab Media in English. Good riddance.

f Osama bin Laden was the founding force behind Al Qaeda, then Adam Gadahn was perhaps its leading American voice.

“Because Gadahn was a spokesman and not an operational planner, his death will have little practical bearing on Al Qaeda’s terrorist operations,” said an assessment issued on Thursday by Stratfor, a geopolitical risk analysis company. “However, it is quite telling that As Sahab media has been uncharacteristically silent in 2015.”

April 22, 2015

The leader of Islamic State, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, has been seriously wounded in an air strike in western Iraq, sources have told the Guardian.

A source in Iraq with connections to the terror group revealed that Baghdadi suffered serious injuries during an attack by the US-led coalition in March. The source said Baghdadi’s wounds were at first life-threatening, but he has since made a slow recovery. He has not, however, resumed day-to-day control of the organisation.

Baghdadi’s wounding led to urgent meetings of Isis leaders, who initially believed he would die and made plans to name a new leader.

April 04, 2015

Sources within Ahrar al-Sham stated that their allies in Jabhat al-Nusra have told them that AQ leader Ayman al-Zawahiri will relinquish his authority – or what left of it – over AQ branches globally and absolve them of their allegiance to him. The move was in response to the rising power of Islamic State in Iraq, Syria, Egypt, Libya and Nigeria as well as new IS incursion into Yemen. AQ and Zawahiri can no longer offer any meaningful leadership...

Flatting Jawa Report File Image of Zawahiri

...AQ is no longer an asset when it come to local conflicts in Syria and Yemen, instead it is a hindrance and a liability.

March 11, 2015

CIA efforts to spy on the group and kill its leaders were so effective that in June 2010 an al Qaeda official urged bin Laden, "You should have fewer exchanges of correspondence with us during this period. Make the period between contacts longer and further apart. Take excessive caution and care, especially this year."

This was wise counsel. Within a few weeks of this letter being written, the CIA would track bin Laden's trusted courier to his longtime hideout in Abbottabad, Pakistan, and on May 1, 2011, a U.S. Navy SEAL operation ordered by President Barack Obama killed al Qaeda's leader.

Which al-Qaeda's narrative is true in their minds, only Muslims can be innocent, thus al-Qaeda see's themselves as innocent.

February 25, 2015

Damn infidels always oppressing the Muslimeen.ne of the men, Akhror Saidakhmetov, 19, of Kazakhstan was arrested early on Wednesday at John F. Kennedy International Airport, where authorities said he was attempting to board a flight to Turkey on his way to Syria.

Saidakhmetov and Abdurasul Hasanovich Juraboev, 24, of Uzbekistan and were accused of planning to travel to Syria to fight for Islamic State, also known as ISIS, Brooklyn U.S. Attorney Loretta Lynch said. The two men also had expressed a willingness to carry out attacks on U.S. soil on behalf of Islamic State, according to the criminal complaint.

February 11, 2015

he leader of a Belgian group that's accused of recruiting locals to fight for the Islamic State group has been sentenced to 12 years in jail. The judge of a court in Antwerp reportedly said in his ruling Wednesday that it was clear that Sharia4Belgium was a “terrorist organization.”

Fouad Belkacem, the alleged leader of "Sharia4Belgium," which sent would-be jihadists to the Middle East, was tried alongside 45 others in a case that is the largest of its kind in Belgium, the BBC reported. Prosecutors have accused the group of providing recruits for groups like ISIS, as the European nation remains on high alert following the discovery of a plot in January to kill local police officers across the country. Two shooters were killed in a series of raids in that operation.

"Belkacem's words can only be interpreted as a call to violence and jihad," public prosecutor Ann Fransen argued in the trial, listing a long line of speeches and videos in which the 32-year-old group leader compared military jihad to praying and fasting, Reuters reported.

You know who should be there with him?

The Sharia4Belgium case once again shows that Muslims are considered guilty under the oppression of liberal democracy until proven otherwise

In fact Anjem was just in Belgium over the summer, but claims he can't travel to Islamic state. But hopefully the next time he takes his summer vacation in Antwerp the Belgians will have the welcome wagon ready.

Anjem's group Sharia4UK is closely connected to all the Sharia4 groups including Sharia4Belgium.

February 09, 2015

He was a Taliban commander captured by the United States and held at Guantanamo Bay. But he was let go and returned to Afghanistan. Mullah Abdul Rauf went on to become a recruiter for ISIS in Afghanistan.

He was killed in a drone strike Monday, two officials told CNN.

Rauf and five others were killed, four of them Pakistani militants, said Mohammed Jan Rasoulya, the deputy governor of southern Helmand province. A senior Afghan security source confirmed Rauf's death.

The Washington Post, in a headline last month, called him "the shadowy figure recruiting for the Islamic State in Afghanistan."

His name is Mullah Abdul Rauf, Afghan officials told the Associated Press on Monday. He is believed to operating in Helmand province, where coalition troops withdrew in October, according to a tribal leader in Sangin district.

“People are saying that he has raised black flags and even has tried to bring down white Taliban flags in some areas,” the tribal leader, Saifullah Sanginwal, told the AP. “There are reports that 19 or 20 people have been killed” in fighting between the Taliban and the Islamic State group, he added. Those reports have not been confirmed by Afghan authorities.

February 05, 2015

A prominent cleric in the Al-Qaida in Yemen organization was among those killed in a drone strike this weekend, the group says. Sheik Harith al-Nadhari was among those who praised the recent attack on French magazine Charlie Hebdo.

The court heard how, by June last year, Bhatti had convinced his cousin to return to the UK saying his parents were not well and that he should come home.

The taxi driver then transported Khawaja back to his home country, avoiding the well-worn jihadist route of flights to and from Turkey.

That day, Khawaja was reported as being killed but he and Bhatti - who was referred to in a coded message as 'butterbean' - were arrested by specialist counter-terrorism officers.

He plotted his escape from the war-torn country by asking his cousin Tahir Bhatti, 45 (above) to drive to Bulgaria to drive him back to the UK

Mr Dawson told Westminster Magistrates' Court: 'We say he went out to Syria at the end of January, he flew out on 26 January.

'He has a nom-de-guerre of Abu Daigham al-Britani. The Crown say he is a senior member of a terrorist group, Rayat Al Taweed.

'We say he is a senior member of that group because that group publishes media on things like Facebook and within that media are videos of members of that group in a training camp for example, driving in a convoy in military vehicles with anti-aircraft weapons and heavy machine-guns.

'There is one video demonstrating the finding of severed heads on the battlefield and decapitated heads.

'We say Mr Khawaja is Abu Daigham al-Britani and has appeared in many of those videos.'

Abu Daigham al-Britani instead of staying in IS and achieving martyrdom and collecting on his 72 virgins will likely spend the rest of his life in UK prison, with hairy bearded men. All because he missed his mummy.